Dreamwave Armada issue 13

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"Do you expect us to talk?" "No, Mr. Prime. I expect you to die!"
Publisher	Dreamwave Productions
First published	July 9, 2003
Cover date	July, 2003
Written by	Simon Furman
Pencils by	Guido Guidi
Inks by	Elaine To
Colors by	David Cheung, Espen Grundetjern, Stuart Ng, Susan Luo, Shaun Curtis, Gary Yeung
Letters by	Paul Villafuerte
Graphic design	Heli Bartman
Editor-in-chief	Roger Lee
Continuity	Dreamwave Armada continuity

The Autobots try to retrieve a Mini-Con escape pod, but are beset by both an insane Cyclonus and Megatron's orbital cannon.

Synopsis

Cyclonus, driven insane by the power of the Destruction Mini-Con Team, continues to beat up on Thrust. Megatron watches via the camera on his Solar Scalpel, and muses that he knew the Mini-Cons would betray him. He mutters that they'll simply retrieve whatever's left of them and Cyclonus when they're done. Just as he's about to fire, Starscream suggests a new target: the Autobot shuttle en route to Alaska.

Aboard the shuttle, Optimus Prime communicates with the Space Mini-Con Team back at Autobase. They report that the Mini-Cons in the pod are in a protective sleep mode, about two hundred feet under the ice. As for Cyclonus, it seems that the Destruction Team has disabled their safety interlocks, and he is unable to handle so much power.

As the Autobots land and begin the extraction, Megatron obliterates their shuttle, then turns the laser on the crater and starts digging down to the escape pod. Just then, Cyclonus appears, filled with the full power of the Destruction Team. As Hot Shot and Red Alert try to stall him, Optimus Prime orders the Space Team to head into orbit and destroy the cannon—once Megatron has uncovered the pod, it's a sure bet he'll turn the laser on the Autobots afterward. Thrust, meanwhile, wakes up again, takes one look at the situation, and takes off. Realizing that Hot Shot and Red Alert will be unable to stop the insane Cyclonus, Optimus Prime powerlinxes with Sparkplug and orders the Mini-Con to give him everything he's got. With a single punch, he puts Cyclonus out of commission, just as Sky Blast destroys Megatron's satellite. As the Autobots lift the pod out of the crater, Optimus Prime admits his surprise at finding out that Sparkplug was holding back, as he thought they trusted each other. Sparkplug admits that there's a Mini-Con legend about how they have might have the power to either save or destroy the universe. He turns back around to Prime, but the Autobot leader has vanished into thin air.

The fans want G1? We'll give them some G1!

Elsewhere, in Big Sur National Park in California, a small pod appears out of a dimensional rift. The Mini-Con Over-Run steps out, clutching a triangular device, and says that he must find Optimus Prime and warn him that chaos is coming...

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

"This day just keeps gettin' better 'n' better!"

—Iceberg gets swept away by a wall of water

"Cyclonus!"
"HRRRGH?"
"It's time to put you out of our misery!"

—Optimus Prime kayoes Cyclonus

Notes

Transformers references

• Optimus Prime swears by the "Primary Programme". In the trade, "Programme" is altered to the American spelling "Program".

Errors

• Depending on what colorist did what page, Mirage's "cheek-guards" are either colored red like his mouthplate, or black like the rest of his head.
• Over-Run's Mini-Con Matrix is triangular in this issue, however, it is shaped like a pentagon in all subsequent issues.

Other trivia

• The Wavelengths page advertises Transformers/G.I. Joe and contains an article from the desk of Simon Furman.

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Reprints

• Transformers Armada: Volume 3: Worlds Collide (April 28, 2004) ISBN 0973381744 / ISBN 978-0973381740

• Collects issues #12–18.
• Bonus material includes a cover gallery and a preview of the Energon comic.

• Transformers Armada Vol. 3 (Japan ed.) (December, 2004) ISBN 4861760631 / ISBN 978-4861760631

• Same content as Dreamwave's volume 3, translated to Japanese.

• Transformers Armada Vol. 6 (Spain ed.) (August, 2007) ISBN 978-8498149685

• Reprints issues 13–15, translated to Spanish.

• Transformers Armada: Volume 3 (IDW reprint) (April 15, 2009) ISBN 1600104029 / ISBN 978-1600104022

• Straight reprint of the Dreamwave trade with same contents.

• Transformers Armada: Omnibus (August 18, 2010) ISBN 160010715X / ISBN 978-1600107153

• Contains issues 1–18.
• Bonus material includes the Armada Preview issue.
• Reissued in 2016 with a new cover.

• Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection Volume 27: Worlds Collide Part 1 (November 13, 2019)

• Collects issues #8–13 and select material from Dreamwave's Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Armada
• Includes a cover gallery and an intro by Simon Furman.

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  Transformers Armada:
  Volume 3: Worlds Collide

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  Transformers Armada:
  Volume 3 (Japan ed.)

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  Transformers Armada:
  Volume 6 (Spain ed.)

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  Transformers Armada:
  Volume 3 (IDW reprint)

• 

  Transformers Armada: Omnibus

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  Transformers Armada: Omnibus (reissue)

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  Definitive G1 Collection Vol. 27: Worlds Collide Part 1